Chapter 37: Ness Meets His Match? The Battle Between Eternal Rivals!
"Hey Samus!" shouts Bowser as he climbs in through the hole on the wall.
"Bowser! What are you doing here?" Samus asks him.
"Did you see Ganon coming by here? And you beat up that girl who was with Deathborn too!"
"Yeah, Ganon did come here, but he continued climbing to the top. What's with him?"
"He attacked me for no apparent reason. But I fear what Master Hand said is coming true."
"What did he say?"
"I once overheard him talking to Ganondorf about how transforming into Ganon too many times can brainwash him. Ganondorf must've really lost control of himself!"
"Is there anyway to stop him?"
"I know a way, but…"
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Link is somewhere in the shrine. "There's no one at all," he says. "But I keep on hearing battle cries and lots of banging. And I think I hear someone shouting too…"
Suddenly, he sees Luigi running across the hallway while screaming for help, and he is chased by Pico and Bio Rex.
"Um… Isn't that Luigi? And what is he doing here? And it seems like he needs help…"
Then Bowser and Samus come running up the stairs in a hurry.
"Bowser!" Link calls him. "What's the rush?"
"No time to talk! I must stop Ganon!" replies Bowser
"What's wrong with Ganondorf?"
"Talk later! He must be on the rooftop!" Then Bowser hurries up the stairs again.
"Geez… I'll never understand what's going on… Oh well, I think I better help out Luigi."
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Sure enough, Ganon is on top of the shrine, and he lets out a loud pig-like roar. "SQUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAL!"
Then a door on the roof opens and Bowser steps out. "I found you at last, Ganon!"
"Ganon! Snap out of it!" shouts Samus.
Ganon turns his attention to them both and roars at him menacingly.
"So it's true you're not yourself anymore… Then I have no choice but to knock you out!" says Bowser
FLASHBACK
"I see that you overheard what I was talking about with Master Hand, eh?" asks Ganondorf.
"Yeah, and I can't believe it also!" says Bowser.
"Don't worry; it's not like I will go transforming whenever I want to. But if it ever happens, there is still one way to stop me."
"How?"
"Normally after I transformed, I'll turn back to normal when I'm calmed down and tired. However, I'm afraid I'll never calm down if I go berserk. So if that day ever happens, please… I want you to… beat me up as badly as possible."
"What? Why do you say that?"
"It is better that I lose my life than to kill all of you and not knowing what I'm doing myself. Please, promise me that you'll stop me when that happens."
END OF FLASHBACK
"Looks like the day has come," says Bowser. "No hard feelings, pal. I'm doing what you told me to do!" Bowser whips out two bottles of petroleum and hurls it at Ganon. "Koopa Fire Burst!" And he breathes out fire at the bottles just before they hit Ganon, and it creates an explosion that blasts Ganon in the chest.
BANG!
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!" roars Ganon painfully and loudly, and then he angrily stomps towards Bowser.
"Whirling Fortress!" Bowser withdraws into his shell and launches himself at Ganon, hitting him in the body rapidly.
Ganon roars in pain again and shakes Bowser off him. Bowser lands before him and is instantly swatted away, however, the turtle is able to land on his feet.
"Aren't you going a bite too overboard?" asks Samus.
"It can't be helped, and Ganon's pretty tough too," says Bowser. "Looks like I'll have to go a bit tougher on you!" He breathes out a stream of fire at Ganon's face.
While Ganon is being burned and annoyed by the fire, Bowser stops breathing and jumps at him, and slashes him with his claws rapidly.
SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH!
Ganon roars in pain and takes several steps back from the fatal slashes, and he keeps on moving backwards until he's near the edge of the building.
"Ganon! Watch out!" cries Samus.
Ganon angrily raises a fist and slams Bowser onto the floor, but the turtle is able to withstand the blow. Ganon then lifts a foot to stomp him, but Bowser rolled away just time.
Next, Bowser jumps at Ganon and hits him hard in the body using his head. "Bowser Hammer!" The impact sent Ganon tilting backwards and he falls off the building!
"GANON!" screams Samus.
"This must be done!" says Bowser. "So forgive me for this!" Bowser jumps off the building also, and while he is in air, he pulls out another bottle of petrol and hurls it at the falling Ganon. "KOOPA FIRE BURST!"
Ganon hits the ground below with a really hard thud (and causing a violent tremor) and is shortly hit by the bottle afterwards. Immediately, Bowser breathes out fire at Ganon and an explosion ensues.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
And then Bowser falls to the bottom…
BANG!
Samus looks down the building and says, "Hey guys!"
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Deep inside the building…
"I'm going to kill you for making me lost the race, Falcon!" says Zoda angrily.
"I don't have time to mess with you!" says CF. "I'm going after Deathborn."
"He gave us strict orders to kill any intruders, so you're not getting away from me!" Zoda charges at CF very fast and swings his arm forward for a hit, but misses.
"You call that an attack?" asks CF, and then he hits Zoda in the back using his elbow and smashes him to the floor.
"Argh! Take this!" Zoda then throws several furious punches at CF, who easily blocks them all. CF then rolls to the side and kicks Zoda in the back, making him fly across the room and hit the wall.
BANG!
"Argh! I let my guard down!" says Zoda, getting back up.
"You never let it down. It's just you who are weak!"
"You have not seen anything of me yet! Just you wait!"
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Back outside…
Ganondorf is lying down all burned up and unconscious on the ground, and he is back in his human form once more. "That must've hurt a lot, eh?" asks Bowser, who is standing next to him. "At least you're back to normal."
"Hey! Is everything all right down there?" shouts Samus from the rooftop.
"All is fine! Ganondorf just needs to take a rest. He's still alive, so don't worry!" Bowser turns to Ganondorf and says, "I can't just stand here; there are lots of bad guys to beat up inside. But I can't leave him alone here either… Oh well." Bowser takes Ganondorf by the hand and drags him into the building.
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Somewhere in the building, Ness is confronting Pokey, who is riding in a spider-like mech.
"Why must you do this, Pokey?" asks Ness. "You're going too far this time!"
"I'll go even to this extent to prove myself better than you!" says Pokey.
"You're insane!"
"Enough talking and fight me! This time I'll win for sure!"
"Oh well… I'm going to use the usual… PSI Rocking!" Ness shot out a colorful beam at Pokey's mech, but then a strange force shield reflects the beam back to Ness. "What!" He quickly jumps away to avoid getting hit. "What the!"
"Hahahaha! I have a powerful force shield that reflects all PSI attacks!" explains Pokey. "No matter how hard you try, you cannot hit me with PSI!"
"I don't believe it! PK Thunder!" Ness shoots a lightning bolt at Pokey, but the bolt simply reflects back to him. Ness thought the PK Thunder won't hurt him, but rather boosts him forward like always, but he was wrong when he got electrocuted by the homecoming lightning bolt. "YAAAAA!
"Hahaha! You're only doing nothing!"
"Argh! PK Fire!" Ness shot out a spark at Pokey, but it gets reflected back to Ness like always and explodes into fire.
"Are you deaf? Do you not hear what I say about PSI attacks being useless?"
"Guess you're right," says Ness. "Then I'll have to use other things else!" He takes out his baseball bat and swings it at the front part of the mech hard, but it didn't leave behind any scratch.
"While this mech is vulnerable to physical attacks," says Pokey, "it has a very powerful armor to make up for it! Even your lame baseball bat can't do anything about it!"
"Argh! What do I do?"
"Now's my turn to attack! Stink Gas!" Pokey presses a button and the front part of the mech opens, releasing a brown gas.
"Eeeew! It smells horrible!" cries Ness as he quickly runs off to catch some air.
"Haha! How do you like the farts I stored up until now?"
"You're disgusting!"
"Take this!" Pokey presses another button and the mech fires a couple of missiles at Ness. Ness quickly hops off to avoid the missiles, and then he decides to use telekinesis to deflect the remaining missiles. But when he tried it, the missile won't follow his commands and continues moving, so he has to avoid it. "Everything that comes out from this mech is immune to psychic!" explains Pokey. "I have designed it specially to fight you!"
"You're getting better at this, Pokey," says Ness. "Though I hate to admit it…"
"Die!" Pokey then commands the mech to fire a laser beam from its eyes (actually, it's the front light). Ness uses PSI Magnet to absorb the laser, and it did, not to mention giving more power to Ness.
"Perhaps if I absorb it, my PSI attacks will be strong enough to bust his shield!" he thought. After done absorbing the laser, Ness attacks with PSI Rocking again, thinking it'll destroy the shield now that his attacks are strong enough.
But he is wrong; the PSI Rocking got reflected back to Ness like usual and hits him.
BANG!
"YAAAAAAAA!" cries Ness as he got a taste of his own attack.
"HAHAHAHA! You are an idiot!" laughs Pokey. "Stupid!"
"Ugh… Then how about this? PK Thunder!" Ness shot out lightning bolt and guides it to the back of him, and when it hit, Ness shot at the mech very fast. "PK Cannonball!" He hits the front part of the mech and…
CLANG!
He drops the floor and groans in pain. "Ow… Hey, who am I?"
"Enough of this!" shouts Pokey. He moves the mech forward and rams into Ness, sending him across the room and banging his head against the wall.
BANG!
Ness gets back up and says, "I remember now! I'm Ness! And I hit my head on his mech and temporarily lost my memory!"
"Die!" shouts Pokey as the mech charges forward very fast. Ness quickly rolls aside to avoid the charging attack, and the mech hits the wall instead.
After that, Ness pulls out his baseball bat and jumps into the air and whacks Pokey's head hard and drops back to the floor.
"YEOW!"
"Ha! Now I know where to hit!" says Ness.
"Surely I haven't took notice of this, but it's not like I'm going to sit around and leave myself vulnerable!"
"Oh yeah? Try this!" Ness jumps into the air to try the second time, but when he is right above Pokey, a mechanical hand appears from the back part of the mech and grabs Ness! "What!"
"This mech also got an arm!" says Pokey.
"Argh!"
The hand slams Ness onto the floor, and Pokey's mech jump into the air and lands back down on top of Ness, crushing him underneath.
SLAM!
"YAAAAAAAAAA!"
The mech gets off Ness and he is seen flatten underneath.
"Ugh…"
"Hahahahaha! You look so frail, Ness!" laughs Pokey. "Now I am the winner!"
"No…"
"I'll crush you flat like a pancake one more time and you're finished!" Pokey prepares his mech to jump again, but suddenly, someone falls down and lands on his head hard. "YEOW!" And that person hops off and onto the floor. "Who's there!"
"It's-a me, Mario!" says the person who stomped Pokey.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Ganondorf is back to normal but unconscious, though it's a good thing he's no longer on rampage. Hooray for Bowser!
Ness is having a big problem with his archenemy, but good thing Mario came to the rescue! Will they be able to defeat Pokey?
And though I feel like saying this, it can be quite a spoiler for Mother 3, the sequel to Earthbound/Mother 2. So…
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Pokey is the main villain of Mother 3. He really turned from a naughty brat to a terrible villain that you'll grow to hate after seeing all that he's done in the game.